There's audio, and then there's Quintet home theater
It was a sobering realization. All this time you'd thought that many of your favorite movies opened with a scene of a cute little kitten meowing . . . when it was in fact a great lion proffering two rumbling roars. How could this be? Where did you go wrong? A true home theater experience is equal parts video and audio. If you've been relying on your TV's tiny built-in speakers to deliver the audio, you've been missing out on half of the fun of a home theater setup. Complete your home theater with five channels of full, clear, detailed audio without the clutter of large surround-sound speakers. Complete your home theater with the Quintet 5.0-channel speaker system from Klipsch. Four compact satellite speakers team up with a two-way center-channel speaker to surround you with multi-channel surround sound from your favorite DVD or Blu-ray movies. Now in it's fourth iteration, the Quintet system is back, and better than ever.
Of Tractrix and tweeters
The hallmark of Klipsch speakers is bright, realistic sound which can be credited to the patented Tractrix Horn. The Tractrix Horn's carefully calculated flare dramatically increases driver efficiency, allowing production of very high sound levels with minimal amplifier power and no strain or distortion. It also controls the sound's direction, ensuring excellent coverage of the listening area while minimizing detail-obscuring reflections off of walls, floor, and ceiling. Fed by a smooth, accurate 0.75" aluminum-dome tweeter, the XT Micro Tractrix Horn featured on each speaker in the Quintet system is the key to the vibrantly realistic, emotionally compelling Klipsch Sound Experience. The 90° by 40° MicroTractrix Horn used in the Quintet speaker package incorporates the advances of Klipsch's Tractrix Horn technology in its most compact application ever. Integrated into the front baffle to minimize diffraction, the horn delivers high output, low distortion, broad dynamics and, most importantly, true Klipsch sonic character.
Every sigh, every whisper, every word
Sure, with their 0.75" tweeter/3.5" woofer pairs, the Quintet's satellite speakers do an impressive job of serving up dynamic, enveloping surround sound effects. But while you enjoy the immersive quality of surround effects, you also enjoy becoming engrossed is a movie's dialogue. Here's where a surround-sound system's center-channel speaker steps in. Center-channel speakers work to reproduce every line an actor utters — whether whispered in a mystery flick or sung in a musical — with power and detail. Combining a single 0.75" tweeter with two 3.5" woofer drivers, the Quintet's center-channel is built to deliver every sigh, every whisper, every word of a movie's dialogue with clarity and nuance.
Safe and sound
For a peaceful and harmonious home theater area, all your A/V components need to get along well together. Because speakers feature integrated magnets that can potentially harm other components — like your TV — Klipsch has take special care to design all the speakers in the Quintet system with magnetic shielding. You're free to place these five speakers anywhere in your home theater area without risk of damage to other devices.
When in home . . .
If your name doesn't start with "Ron" and end with "Burgundy", there's a good chance you've heard the expression, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." For speaker sets, the expression is a little different though: "When in home, look like the other theater components". We admit, it's not quite as catchy, but for most people, it's much more useful. You see, having speakers that don't look good with your TV, your Blu-ray player, and of course, your other décor is just tacky. Realizing that aesthetics are nearly as important in a speaker set as the sound quality, Klipsch designed the Quintet as a great compliment to most modern electronics. And, since they need to mesh with the rest of your room in both form, and in feng shui, the four surround speakers are all designed with a nifty stand that doubles as a wall-mount for flexibility in placement. Simply loosen the back screws, then the base twists to be a handy wall-mount. Tighten the screws again, and you're done! As for the center speaker, it's designed with a threaded insert compatible with many common wall-mounts if you choose to explore that avenue. With the Klipsch Quintet system, you get the best of both worlds, function and form, exactly as we imagine the Romans would have liked.
